Prevalence and test characteristics of National Health Safety Network ventilator-associated events

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2019-2028

  Lilly, Craig M ^a   Landry, Karen E ^b   Sood, Rahul N ^a   Dunnington, Cheryl H ^b,c   Ellison, Richard T ^a,b   Bagley, Peter H ^a,b   Baker, Stephen P ^a   Cody, Shawn ^a,b   Irwin, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology and Surgery University of Massachusetts Medical School ^*  (United States)

^c UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

mechanical ventilation; patient safety; quality measures; ventilator associated event; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; APACHE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84906791818     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000396     Document Type: Article

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